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The Dell Deal Explained: What a Successful Turnaround Looks Like

Harvard Business Review

You''re CEO of a once great company, now beleaguered on all sides by competitors and a rapidly changing industry. Dell returned as CEO in 2007. Lerner has another paper relevant to the Dell case, which looks at the performance of buyout companies'' stock prices after they IPO, including public firms taken private in the deal.

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